Word: ranks
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...pick up and chase after their dreams. They are born optimists; otherwise, why come? Though some are poorer and have fewer job skills to offer than previous immigrants, an impressive number bring with them palpable contributions to American society. A great many new doctors today are foreign born. Immigrants rank high among the entrepreneurs who are making small businesses the core of recent economic growth. As the pictures on these pages demonstrate, the newcomers have also provided America with some startling images by replicating scenes from their own cultures across the country...
...economic revolution are astounding. In Mao's time, leveling was the rule, and everyone aimed at a drab, fanatical egalitarianism. The nation dressed in rumpled blue tunics that made it difficult to tell men from women, and waxed so proletarian that even army officers removed their badges of rank. Today the society is brazenly materialistic, roaring through cycles of boom and bust that have made millions rich. The free-for-all has also left hundreds of millions in the dust but still eager to get theirs. "People are thinking only about money," says a Chinese professor of philosophy in Beijing...
Eight games showcased the top four players from each team, matched up against each other in rank order. The pairs played two games apiece, so that players would get a turn at each color...
Along the way, however, the brotherhood has also been losing rank-and-file members -- 500,000 since the mid-1970s, 68,000 of those just since Carey's election. This membership dive, along with mismanagement by Carey's plundering predecessors, has wrecked the union's finances. The International lost $58 million in 1992. The union is still slow to reveal its books to its own executive board -- nearly six months passed before this year's first-quarter figures were available -- but an unaudited draft shows a $25 million bath for the first half of 1993. The total net worth...
Under proportional representation, citizens rank their choice of candidates. Whenever the candidate a ballot is counting for amasses a surplus of votes or fails to garner enough votes to qualify, ballots are transferred towards the next numbered candidate...